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Muttiah Muralitharan

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Muttiah Muralitharan

Born: 17 April 1972, Kandy
Major Teams: Tamil Union Cricket and Athletic Club, Lancashire, Sri Lanka.
Known As: Muttiah Muralitharan
Pronounced: Muttiah Muralitharan
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Off Break


Test Debut: Sri Lanka v Australia at Colombo (RPS), 2nd Test, 1992/93
Latest Test:
Sri Lanka v Bangladesh at Colombo (PSS), 1st Test, 2002

ODI Debut:
Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS), 2nd ODI, 1993/94
Latest ODI:
Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS), ICC Champions Trophy, 2002/03

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1999

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Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (including 21/07/2002)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   76   95  37   709   67   12.22  65.95   0   1   36   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling            4255.5 1108 10030  430  23.32  9-51   36  11  59.3  2.35

ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS
 (including 30/09/2002)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave     SR 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  200   91  39   302   18    5.80  67.41   0   0   86   0

                      O      M     R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling            1802.1  118  6916  297  23.28  7-30    7   6  36.4  3.83

FIRST-CLASS
 (1989/90 - 2002/03; last updated 09/11/2002)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  149  177  55  1364   67   11.18   0   1   79   0

                      O       R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling            7028.5 16392  838  19.56  9-51   73  23  50.3  2.33

LIST A LIMITED OVERS
 (1991/92 - 2002/03; last updated 09/11/2002)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  254  113  47   420   18    6.36   0   0  102   0

                      O       R    W    Ave   BBI   4w  5w    SR  Econ
Bowling            2277.3  8425  376  22.40  7-30    9   7  36.9  3.68

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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    Muttiah Muralitharan was born in Kandy. His father, Muttiah Sinnasamy, ran a successful confectionary business and Muralitharan is the eldest of four sons. When he was nine years old he was sent to St Anthony's College, a private school run by Benedictine monks and styled upon Ampleforth College in England. He began his cricketing career as a medium pace bowler, but on the advice of his school coach, Sunil Fernando, he took up off spin when he was fourteen years old. He soon impressed and went on to play for four years in the school First XI. In those days he played as an all rounder and batted in the middle order. In his final two seasons at St Anthony's he took over one hundred wickets and in 1990/1 was named as the 'Bata Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year. He joined Tamil Union and was selected for the Sri Lanka A tour of England in 1991. He played in five games but failed to capture a single wicket. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack records: "Muttiah Muralitharan [found] pitches generally unsympathetic to his slow turn. However, at 19 he was very much a novice with time to learn the skills of his trade." On his return to Sri Lanka he impressed against Allan Border's Australian team in a practice game and then went on to make his test debut at Premadasa International Stadium in the Second Test Match of the series. During the early years he rarely played one-day cricket. During the 1995/6 tour of Australia he was no balled twice for bowling with a suspect action, first by Darrel Hair in Melbourne, and then by Ross Emerson in Brisbane. The controversy threatened his career, but analysis carried out by Darryl Foster, a renowned bio-mechanist, and by the University of Hong Kong proved sufficient for the ICC and his action was cleared. However, it was not the end of his problems as Ross Emerson called him again in Adelaide during Sri Lanka's 1999 tour of Australia. Muralitharan claims that the controversy, although distressing, went on to make him a stronger person and ultimately a better bowler. He grew in confidence after 1996 and started to unveil greater variations as a bowler. He now bowls three stock deliveries - the off spinner, top spinner, and floater, which moves away from the right-hander. He also admits to be working on a "mystery" ball in the nets that is designed to hurry onto the batsmen like a leg-spinner's flipper. Muralitharan has also spent two successful seasons with Lancashire, in 1999 after the World Cup when he took an astonishing 66 wickets in just six games and in 2001 when he took 50 wickets in seven matches. In January 2002 he became the youngest bowler at 29 to reach the 400-wicket mark and the quickest in terms of matches played. He has taken 10 wickets in a game on a record ten occasions.(30.04.2002)

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